[Sly Fox]

With the frustrating end to the season now behind us, it is time to look forward to the spring where a bunch of familiar faces will be gone.

Departing Seniors

• QB Brock Smith
  RB Rashad Jennings
  RB Zach Terrell
  FB Joey Sandvig
  WR Dominic Bolden
  WR Jonathan Crawford
  WR Matt Lambros
  WR Eugene Rogers
  TE Corey Raspberry
  OL Zach Davis
  OL Mike Godsil
  OL Britt Stone
  DL Jay Coady
  DL Colin Dugan
  DL Kevin Richard
  LB Ian Childress
  LB Nick Hursky
  CB Patrick Calvary
  CB Kent Hicks
  FS Ryan Grieser
  LS Dan Pope

All but a few were starters and it will leave a bunch of holes to be filled. At the same time, we are adding a few transfers to help soften the blow:

• RB Alex Green - Butte CC (Signed Letter)
  WR Matt Hilton - Butte CC (Signed Letter)
  WR Ervin Garner - VT
  LB Hunter Ovens - VT

Obviously we have a bunch of players in house who have received a great deal of playing time already in 2008. This is where I'd love to see us build some discussion.

• QB: Landis, Brown or Brennan? Spencer is the clear frontrunner but how do all three factor into the future.
  
  RB: Alex Green looks to be a Rashad-type back but we also have have some guys like Lawrence & Hayes.
  
  OL: Vargas, Stadler, Weaver & Mosier will be looking for some help from young guys.
  
  TE: Shaver, Quarles and even Jones showed sparks in 2008.
  
  WR: Hilton & Garner will have the opportunity to step in alongside guys like Broggin, Summers & Eden.
  
  DL: Trey Jacobs is back and he'll have Robertson & Chapman becoming more involved.
  
  LB: Chad Brown is rock solid and Cheeks, Giddens, Bannon and Bolt showed they are ready.
  
  DB: Chris Rocco will lead this unit with Torrence, Clairborne and Robinson being asked to step up bigtime.

I'm not even going to discuss special teams since we appear in better shape there in the spring than anytime I can remember.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the above and where the best position battles will be on the field.

[SuperJon]

It's Cheek, not Cheeks.

There are players coming in the spring that we are grey shirting. Obviously until school starts we can't talk about them unless you read it in the paper.

On DL you're forgetting Terry Adams, Tim Smith, and Soeren, all of which got playing time late in the season.

At DB you completely forgot Donnie Manns, who will likely be a starter. You also completely forgot about Brandon Saunders and Al Bailey.

Danny Broggin has moved to running back. You put him at WR.

Hayes is used more at WR. You put him at RB.

At linebacker, you left out Kyle O'Donnell all together and he was the starter going into the season over Brown.

[Sly Fox]

Dude, this was intended to be a topic starter and not all-inclusive. But thanks for the clarifications.

So what positions have you the most or least confident?

[SuperJon]

You asked for discussion. I put the stuff that you missed. Wasn't that the point?

[Sly Fox]

Gracias

[LCA&LU Mom]

sly, that list of yellow names up there just about brought tears to my eyes. but then i was heartened to recall we'll be able to see more of c. rocco, torrence and claiborne (i was so impresssed with him that one game, can't remember which one, but looking forward to seeing lots more) RB concerns me the most, there are a lot of holes to be filled but i will miss rashad, i've been watching him for 6+yrs now, lca&lu, it's gonna be tough